A Blog That’s Magical

What makes an effective blog? What’s the magic that makes readers roll into your words?

Of course the effective blog is one that meets the purpose to which you need the information. As a teacher who needs support from beyond the walls of my school to keep me fresh, I wish for blogs with tech ideas, examples, and how-tos for lessons, strategies, and tech for the classroom. Fulfilling that wish is “Langwitches Blog: The Magic of Learning” written by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano.

The titles offer the topic clearly. The content includes 5W+Hs of effective news:

Who uses the technology

What the technology is

When to use it

Where to include it

Why use it

How to do it

In addition, pictures, graphics, links, and sources are included to enhance the explanation and to allow follow-up. It’s written clearly so others can replicate the strategy used to integrate the technology.

If you want information about technology how-to in the classroom, search Silvia’s blog. She shares the “magic of learning” for others to learn. Do check it out and see if you don’t agree. And, thanks, Silvia, for waving your magic wand to sprinkle the world with your successful ideas.

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9 comments for “A Blog That’s Magical”

plnaugle

January 16, 2011 at 10:57 pm

Hi Sheri,
I am a big fan of Silvia’s blog also. I have learned so much from her about Skyping and did a K12 Online Conference presentation on Skype thanks to her inspiration and included her blog in my references. Don’t you love her sense of design? Have you seen the posters she has created?

Hi Sheri, I too, am a great fan of Sylvia’s work. I liked the layout of the post. It was easy to read with bullet points, had images to catch my attention, multimedia for further research, but I only if I wanted to check that out and some great samples of student work. Thanks for sharing it.
Sheri, just in regard to the problems with the antispam words. I just had that problem myself. I tried four times, forgot to copy me comment and got so exasperated. However, I cleared the cache in tools of my web browser, refreshed the window and it gave me a new anti spam word that worked. Does that make sense? If not contact me. Hope it works for you.

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